Flexible oil-can spout.



Patented Sept. 1?. 1918,

' NVif/VT GQRGK G. SJ'QGRENA FLEXEBLE 0H. CAN SPOUT: APPLICATION FILED APR. lb, was.

STATES GEORGE SJOGREN, or TORONTO, on'muio, CANADA, ASSIGNOB or onn-roun'rn To 'KNUT' CARLSON,

OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA,

FLEXIBLE: OIL-SAN sroo'r.

' Application filed April 1e,191s. Serial N'o. 228,944.-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Grouse SJooREN, the city of Toronto, in the county of in-the Province of invented certain new .and useful Improvements in Flexible Oil-Can Spouts, of which the following is. the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in flexible oil can spouts and the object of the invention is to devise a flexible oil can spout which will retain any form into-which it is bent so that an oil hole can bereadily gotten at no matter in what location the hole may be and itconsists essentially of the following arrangement and construction of parts is-hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure .1, is a sectional flexible oil can spout showing my device located therein.

.solder or other means.

Fig. 2, is a similar view to Fig. 1, showing the spout in bent form.

In the drawings ence indicate corresponding rious figures.

1 indicates a of usual construction provided at its upper end with a spout mouth 1 and at its lower end with a cap 2 having a sleeve-like portion 2* into which the lower end of the flexible spout. 1 extends and is suitably secured by so as to term an open parts in the vawhich is doubled loop- 3*, and twisted into the form shown at 3.

metric of either secured directly to the cap or as shown is soldered or otherto a washer 4 which wise suitably secured into the interior of the cap around itsouter edge, a small hole being formed inflib center of the washer in a line with the open lower end of the flexible spout. i The wire forming the loop 3" and twisted ortion 3 is of flexible and non-resilient material adapted-to be bent in any form and to retain such form no matter what the form may be. The open loop the twisted portion 3 of spout and thereby allow for the free passage .of the; oil through the sp York,' Ontario, Canada, have view through a by the operator like characters of referindicates a wire the end of the'loop being exten ilpd spout of a open loop 3 is. designed to fit into the flexi- 3* serves to center the wire within the out around such twisted portion and for afree outlet of the oil through the mouth 1*. f

It will be understood thata flexible'spout of ordinary construction when bent hasv a certain amount of resilience which will 'preventiit remaining in the position. to which it is bent without being held in such position and that it'will spring back to the vertical immediately it is freed. By means of my device when the spout is bent thetwisted wire being formed of flexible 'nonresllient wire will retain .its bent form, the looped end 35 holding the end of the spout firmly in. position; so that such spout end, when the spout is bent into the form shown in Fig. 2 or into any other form, will be held firmly in position when freed by the hand of the operator so that the spout end may be entered readily into the oil hole holding the. oil can in his hand. Thus it will be readily seen that an oil hole when placed in any location which v would be under ordinary circumstances flexible 011 can spout which is operation.

7 What I claim as my invention 'is.

1. The combination with a flexibl'eoil. can

flexible member comprising. a double soft wire twisted together in close formation and extending longitudinally and centrally through the interior of the spout and adapted to retain any form into which it is bent, means for securing the inner end of the twisted wire to the inner end of the spout, andmeans for guiding the free end of the twisted wire at the-nozzle end of the spout, whereby it is kept substantially central thereof and-yet freeto' move longitudin'ally in relation to the spout end." a 2. The combination with a flexible oil can spout having a reduced mouth opening of a flexible member extending longitudinally through the interior of the spout and adapt ed to retain any form into which it is bent and having an open looped outer end adja- Patented se e. r7, 'ieie.

cent to the free end or the spout, and means for securing the opposite end of the member adjacent tot e inner end of the spout.

3Q The combination with a flXlb18 O1l can i spout, of a flexible member comprising a" Th combination with a flexible oii can spout and an oil can ca'psecured i0 the in 31%? nd the spcui, of a flexibie twisted Le ex'tending longitudinally of the spent iez'niinatiiig at its outer end in an open ii) an dianigtrica 17; extending portion, and

*ieiti to be secured Within the ca Lg; its central orifice opposite i i an end of the spout and to'the outer fac which the diametrically extending enci iiiev twisted Wire are designed 'to be se- -ii Hi, 2:

GEORGE SJGGRLEN.

i005; fitting the spout and at its inner end in 

